Milestones: Dec. 29, 1961

Born. To Lauren Bacall. 37, willowy widow of Humphrey Bogart. and Jason Robards Jr., 39, talented, turbulent Broadway and Hollywood star whom she married last July 4: their first child, a son (she has two children by Bogart, he three by a previous marriage); in Manhattan.

Divorced. By Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, brisk, outspoken board chairman of U.S. Steel until his 1955 retirement: Hazel Hatfield Fairless, 61. Fairless' second wife (they were married after her daughter married his son), whom he charged with "indignities"' kept secret by the court; after 17 years of marriage;...

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